PD (predata): I don't want to be rude but I realized that people have no idea on HOW MUCH ARE AIRPLANES POLLUTING, i am worried by climate crisis, trying my best to do a difference, participating weekly on the FFF's and avoiding airplane trips during my holidays so for me makes little sens to accept people that are comming by plane to visit me. Planes pay no petrol taxes and pay neither country's normal taxes, and they seem to be very cheap an affordable, but they are not and it is expensive for the planet and the society and the fact is that every day and every hour there are more and more planes on the air ( and as travelling far it's so trending now the numbers are rising and rising). More than the half of the weith of a long trip airplane is the weith of the gas that it needs for flying during the whole trip. And when you take a single flight you are polluting at least as much as if you were driving by car ( alone, without sharing the car) the same distance than the flight. Think about it.. i know that it's more expensive travelling by other means in terms of time and money, but think about it, most of the people of the world cant even aford travelling around the world by plane. Go and get some sense of justice.

Hello people!

My name is Adria and I am working very hard to make a difference in the local economy of my town, growing healthy and beautiful food to actually feed the community around me.

I studied biology and always worried for wild ecosystems and biodiversity conservation, for few years I volunteered in many bioological studies around the world, but then I realised that since Food Industry and Capitalism are the main cause of most of the really concerning enviromental problems the only battle was against them.

So I did remember that my family had an old farm from the grandparents who nobody was using and I did study a master on organic farming. And some introdcutional course to permaculture too.

Here I am now, in a big old house, 8 hectareas and the animals; the donkey, the hens, the dogs and cat...

And by the way with some friends we created an organization and started to prospect, interview old farmers and create a seed bank and traditional trees nursery. WE HAVE HUNDREDS OF SEEDS IN THE SEEDBANK OF THIS HOUSE!!!

The projects in the farm are :
- nature house for enviromental education ( already working with many schools during the scholar season)
- 0.8 ha veggies garden which take most of the work!
- 100 young sweet fruit trees and grapes ( fig trees, peers...)
- 20 almond trees
- 27 small pistachio trees
- 60 olive trees
- cereal crops

Your hand work would be a meravelous help! I need some help to take time off work and good reasons to relax and have fun showing around this area to the travelers that wish to visit it

Type of help

GardeningBuildingCooking / shoppingFarmstayHelp with Eco projectHelp in the houseAnimal care

Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

We can help in a lenguace exchange. Have fun learing some sentences in any other lenguage.

And also, when I have volunteers it means that I have more free time, I am more relaxed, and we use that time for some nice activities: going out to the town ( Igualada), going to the mountains, going to the beach, or doing anything else in my free day. And we like to share and invite to participate in those activities with the helpers!

My main goal was to get more knowledge and experience in organic farming and I wasn't dissapointed for Adrià is a great practitioner and teacher. I gained much more understanding of biointensive growing and community aspect of agriculture. However, learning is only a piece of the bigger picture. Because staying at Adrià's farm was the best… read more workaway experience I could imagine: I met wonderful people, seen beautiful places and made great memories.

Summer days here begin early in the morning with chilly air and sun rising from behind the Montserrat massif. After quick breakfast we start work, which consists of many gardening tasks: watering, preparing the trays and sowing new seedlings, planting, weeding, plowing, spreading manure (shit day!) or harvesting vegetables. Around noon, when the heat becomes hard to bare, we take shelter in the house and start preparing lunch. We prepare delicious meal with plenty of fresh vegetables and at the same time we talk, listen to music and get to know each other. Then siesta... and I wasn't even trying to resist taking a nap. Late afternoons and evenings are great for walks to the river or nearby hills. Many times Adrià offers us leisure activities: hiking, going to the beach, climbing wall, cinema, party with his friends or just having some ice cream in Igualada. Other times we just stay home and cook dinner together, chat, play board games, sing and play ukulele etc. Until our bodies call for some rest and we go to bed.

Adrià is a person that restores my faith in humanity. Knowledgeable, driven and having strong moral fibre. At the same time kind-hearted, cheerful, whistling and dancing as he makes his way through everyday chores.
Other volunteers, Adrià's family and friends are also fantastic and interesting people who always made me feel welcome.
Dana is the sweetest and most loving lady dog that treats everyone like they're part of the family. Kufa (lazy girl) and Zen (the hunter) - beautiful cats, appearing here and there to get some cuddles. Donkey couple are incredibly intelligent graceful creatures with strong personalties. Needles to say - my animal lover heart was fully satisfied.

The only downside was that I couldn't stay longer. I'll be more than happy to come back if life gives me such opportunity.

Don't hesitate taking Roan as a mate and volunteer! He is a smart and hard worker with good skills to adapt to any work and good energy and spirit to give a hand and help in the house starting cooking if necessary. I was impressed by how he had cultivated and developed his political ideas and creativiy despite his age, throught reading and music I… read more guess, much poetry in his words and much love and dedication to his guitar. Good job! I was glad to meet you! ;)

This was my first workaway experience and it was an excellent introduction!! Adria is incredibly knowledgeable, cheerful and motivated; somehow always remaining super laid back while also getting so much done around the farm and managing several workawayers. He showed us around town and we went climbing and to a climate protest! I was only at the… read more farm for 10 days, but I learned so much about organic farming as well as a bunch of random tidbits of information about nature conservancy from Adria’s life of adventure. The farm atmosphere is an excellent combination of focused and dedicated outside labour in the mornings and mellow, flexible afternoons with a lot of freedom to nap, explore the area around the farm or go into town and get to know Adria or your fellow workawayers.

I’d definitely recommend Adria as a host to anyone seeking good food, good company, and rewarding work in a cool location.

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25/07/2019

Left by Workawayer (Julie) for host

GRACIAAAAAAAAAAAAAS

Dana is a wonderful, welcoming being, always smiling and excited to play, eat and go out. She takes care of Adria, who fits exactly the same description (except Dana is a dog and Adria is a human).

In this farm we discovered many tasks and became addicted to peeling garlics. We never get bored of his holy zucchinis which… read more were multipurpose: zucchinis pasta, zucchinis soup, zucchinis chocolate cake, zucchinis pancake...

Adria always had a lot of energy (thanks to zucchinis we guess) and during the weekend or the evenings he made us discover many supergreat aspects of catalan's culture! :) (don't know if eating wild ants was a part of this culture...)

This was our 2nd/3rd volunteer experience and we stayed ~3 weeks... we would have stayed twice more if we had infinite holidays, but it doesn't matter because it's also going to be our 4th, 6th and 20th wwoofing stay, well if Adria doesn't get tired of us (also it would be nice to invent teleportation). We need to come back because “mierda de burro!” we didn't try to cook the snails!!

GRACIAS
Caroline & Julie

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07/07/2019

Left by host for Workawayer (Julie)

Julie and Caroline are two super cool and funny sisters. They were kidding and laughing constantly, they were creative and brave enough to consider eating any kind of insect or mixing any kind of food ( ANY).

They had the extraordinary capabiliity to shut down their brain to rest it so that they didn't need to sleep much and kept baking cakes or… read more working as zombies. They were chilling out in the shadow cleaning garlics or doing seedlings...THANKS A LOT FOR ALL THAT WORK!

Actually I think their level of stupidity was close to mine ( not as bad but close) and I regret I had no more time to realx and share stupid comments with them.

But well, when they left they said they'll come back again and again. I don't know much yet about the strength of their promises, I will give back a new review with that information in the future! ;)

Ocean is a sweet mate with a very positive vibe. She was also a very good help in some moments I was struggling a bit with the work. She also made some delicious elder-wine.

Trust on her, all you need to know is that when she says "ice" she means "house" and when she says you are "fat" she actually means you are "fit" which is not so bad. It's… read more just a thing with the Bristol's accent. English...~~

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01/07/2019

Left by host for Workawayer (Marie )

Marie was a super volunteer. I am sorry for her and her co-volunteers couse last weeks I was specially stressed and bussy, more than at other moments of the year, but there was Marie to rescue me. She is really a very responsable girl and she gave me an extra help bouth outside in the garden and also in the house. She has much interest in… read more gardening and permaculture and she also has a lot of energy. I'm happy that after all I found some time to take them to Montserrat to thank her for all she did.

So don't hesitate giving her a chance now that she will be out there travelling and looking for experiences.

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19/06/2019

Left by Workawayer (Marie ) for host

I loved spending these two weeks in the Adria’s farm. I was very well received by him and his friends and family. I will remember the ice, concert and climbing trips, especially the hike to MontSerrat last weekend 🤩. It is impressive to see the work he has done to produce his beautiful organic vegetables and full of flavors !! thanks for… read more everything 🙂

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He was giving his best on the field and was of a great help. He studied and had very cool knowledges about ecologic economy, peak oil, energy return on investments for the different energetic sources. Super important topics I think for the understanding of the current society. I have warm… read more memories of him playing the guitar by the fire or just at home at night. Good luck in your trip Jakob!

Adria is such an amazing host!! He is almost constantly cheerful and talkative. He has a lot of cool experiences and is full of knowledge and interesting thoughts on all kinds of topics from farming to energy and climate change to politics. He also made sure we got to perform a variety of tasks. The house and the farm as well as the way of life… read more are very idyllic. Everything is shared, from the work to cooking delicious meals with fresh veggies to playing music around a fire watching the sunset... He made us volunteers feel like old friends, taking us hiking, climbing, sunrise-watching, sunset-watching... In short, i had an awesome time and would warmly recommend the farm to anyone looking for an unforgettable experience.

Hahaha besides he was complaining on different things from time to time ( joking, as it's been proved by the feedback he left) and that he said he didn't like conventional jobs and working, and that's one of the reasons why he is travelling, he was a cool workawayer and I could notice that he was giving his best in the field, which I really… read more apreciatte.

Sergio is kind, talkative, easygoing. He used his high computing skills, from his degree on Informatics, to stream some movies and TV shows that we all were watching together ( some were always falling sleep).

We had one big desagreement when he said that some dinosaurs were mammals, but we managed it in a civilised way even though we didn't solve it yet.

I highly recommend him, i wish him the best! But I hope he is not going to take too many airplane trips and that he is letting me work with his beloved donkey someday in the future in order to save petrol!

My time in this beautiful place has been so wonderful, I consider myself very lucky cause I had the chance of being there for 5 weeks. Adria is a great person, everything was so easy and fun (He explains everything very well) He took me with the rest of the volunteers to the beach, concerts, museum and climbing. We also used to sing and we had… read more bonfires as well. I learned a lot about organic food, I did some watering, harvesting veggies, weeding, planting seeds and also I had the chance of eating a lot of veggies, the food was insane! (I could not stop eating, I`ll never forget the strawberries with chocolate and the delicious coulant) He has a lovely dog, 3 cats, some chickens and 2 donkeys (Miss you Thor, you`re on my thoughts very often) This is one of those places that you never want to leave. Thank you Adria for such an amazing time, highly recommenden him! I wish you all the best for the future : )

I had an incredible time staying with Adrià, sharing life, work, sunsets and sunrises, hikes, ukulele music and rancheras, calçotadas, siestas, climbing sessions, water battles, and so much more that I can hardly name it all. You really opened up your house and life to us, which made it easy to feel like friends or family after a short time! I… read more learned a lot about farming with diverse and mostly fun tasks like harvesting veggies, pruning trees or planting seeds of plants that you never get to see in normal supermarkets.
I also learned how to sing in catalán (more or less ) or how to steal chocolate without anyone noticing 😄
...I could still write pages and pages, but in short, it was an awesome time that brang precious memories I will never forget. Thank you for everything, stay the way you are, and hopefully hasta luego en el futuro. Yo llevo tu sonrisa como bandera ;)

Jessi is a happy person! At least she gifted us with many happy moments. She is funny and she brought home laughts and very nice music ( she sings very well while playing ukelele or guitar). She is social and tried her best helping in the garden and at home. We temaed up very well. We shared sunsets, sunrises, hikes, climate change strikes, deep… read more psicology, awasome meals and singings by the fire.

She only stole a bit of xocolate ;^p

A big hug Jessi, I'll try to keep in my mind some of those nice moments, keep shinning by yourself!

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10/03/2019

Left by Workawayer (India ) for host

Adria is a great Workaway host! If you are looking to learn about grassroots sustainable agriculture, he has a lot to offer in the way of experiential and theoretical learning. He is super knowledgable; he has his masters in Organic Gardening and in always curious to discover new ways of farming. While I was at his farm, he took my to see an… read more agricultural implement convention, watched farming documentaries with me, and took time to discuss his interests, farming and beyond. He started his farm from scratch and has done an impressive job transforming the land using his creativity and the support of the strong community which surrounds him. This includes his welcoming family, other workawayers, and his friends, many of whom are working collaboratively with Adria to develop a community seed bank of wild, native plants. Beyond farming, he has no end of interests, which include awesome music, slack-lining, rock climbing, cooking yummy food, hiking, playing board games, going out with friends... he is social, fun, accepting, and smart. I really enjoyed my stay.

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08/03/2019

Left by host for Workawayer (India )

India is a super kind and nice girl! She had good skills giving me a hand with the work in the garden and helping in the kitchen too. It's been less than 2 weeks but I feel we had a very good connection. We shared a lot of conversations, delicious food, climbing sessions and so on. A big hug, wishes of happiness and prosperity, and thanks again! ;)